TY - JOUR
T1 - Improved immunocytochemical identification of neural, endothelial, and inflammatory cell types in paraffin-embedded injured adult rat spinal cord
AU - Casella, Gizelda T.B.
AU - Bunge, Mary Bartlett
AU - Wood, Patrick M.
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank Susan Kraydieh for help with histology, Beata Frydel for imaging advice, Rob Camarena for figure formatting, and Diana Masella for word processing. This work was supported by The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis and NIH NS 38665. GTBC was a Lois Pope LIFE Fellow.
PY - 2004/10/15
Y1 - 2004/10/15
N2 - Methods that facilitate the accurate counting of specific neural cell types would be of substantial value in evaluating the efficacy of treatments applied to spinal cord injury. This report describes reliable procedures for identification of neurons, oligodendrocytes, astrocytes, endothelial cells and inflammatory cells (neutrophils and activated macrophage/microglial cells) in paraformaldehyde-fixed, paraffin-embedded injured adult rat spinal cord. Antigen retrieval techniques (enzymatic and thermal) were used to improve antibody access to masked epitopes. To decrease background immunofluorescence and autofluorescence of hemoglobin, the tissue sections were pretreated with 0.1% sodium borohydride in PBS (30 min), followed by 1-5 min incubation in 0.5% Sudan black in 70% ethanol. Commercially available techniques to amplify the primary signal such as tyramide signal amplification (TSA) and avidin/biotin/peroxidase/ DAB/nickel/cobalt amplification (ABP/DABA) were also tested. Hoechst 33342 nuclear staining was used to indicate cell location, number, and integrity, thereby avoiding misidentification of cells. The best antibodies were: anti-NeuN antibody for neurons, anti-S100 for astrocytes, and anti-S100 and APC-7 antibodies in combination for oligodendrocytes, anti-laminin (LN) for endothelial cells, and ED1 antibody for activated macrophages and microglia. Amplification of the primary signal with TSA or ABP/DABA was also found to be beneficial.
AB - Methods that facilitate the accurate counting of specific neural cell types would be of substantial value in evaluating the efficacy of treatments applied to spinal cord injury. This report describes reliable procedures for identification of neurons, oligodendrocytes, astrocytes, endothelial cells and inflammatory cells (neutrophils and activated macrophage/microglial cells) in paraformaldehyde-fixed, paraffin-embedded injured adult rat spinal cord. Antigen retrieval techniques (enzymatic and thermal) were used to improve antibody access to masked epitopes. To decrease background immunofluorescence and autofluorescence of hemoglobin, the tissue sections were pretreated with 0.1% sodium borohydride in PBS (30 min), followed by 1-5 min incubation in 0.5% Sudan black in 70% ethanol. Commercially available techniques to amplify the primary signal such as tyramide signal amplification (TSA) and avidin/biotin/peroxidase/ DAB/nickel/cobalt amplification (ABP/DABA) were also tested. Hoechst 33342 nuclear staining was used to indicate cell location, number, and integrity, thereby avoiding misidentification of cells. The best antibodies were: anti-NeuN antibody for neurons, anti-S100 for astrocytes, and anti-S100 and APC-7 antibodies in combination for oligodendrocytes, anti-laminin (LN) for endothelial cells, and ED1 antibody for activated macrophages and microglia. Amplification of the primary signal with TSA or ABP/DABA was also found to be beneficial.
KW - Antigen retrieval
KW - Autofluorescence
KW - Hoechst staining
KW - Laminin
KW - Signal amplification
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2004.04.008
DO - 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2004.04.008
M3 - Article
C2 - 15351516
AN - SCOPUS:4444297827
VL - 139
SP - 1
EP - 11
JO - Journal of Neuroscience Methods
JF - Journal of Neuroscience Methods
SN - 0165-0270
IS - 1
ER -